Fried shrimp

What is the best oil to use?

Would lard work?

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Give me your dredge you use.

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Half and half yellow and white corn meal seasoned with salt, black pepper, garlic powder and cayenne.

I use an egg, Dijon mustard and sour cream for a thick wet slurry to put the shrimp in before the corn meal dredge.

I usually use vegetable oil but the important thing is to get it up to around 350 degrees and don't crowd the pan when frying the shrimp and drop the oil temperature too much.

2/3 flour 1/3 corn starch, garlic powder, Tony's

Louisiana Fish Fry brand "Shrimp Fry."

Egg wash of eggs with a little milk.

Dry - Wet - dry

Fried in Canola / Corn / Soybean / Vegeatable oil at 350.

The dry wet dry in that breading has the shrimp with a batter and flavor comparable to Popeyes … if you like their shrimp.

Don's Secrets (cookbook, 1958)

2# shrimp, peeled & deveined
1 egg
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup evaporated milk
3 cups cold water
3 cups bread crumbs
Salt, black pepper, and Cayenne (red pepper) to taste

Make egg batter by mixing egg, evaporated milk and cold water. Leave part of shell on the end of each shrimp tail when peeling. Slit each shrimp three-fourths of its length and season generously with salt, black pepper and Cayenne. Dip each shrimp in egg batter, and then flour. Dip in egg batter again and roll in bread crumbs. Fry in deep fat at 375 for 3 to 4 minutes. Serves 4

I've been doing it this way for a long time and never had a complaint

I apparently am in the minority here.

I just take the damp shrimp and toss directly into batter (blue bag louisiana fish fry cut with some flour and cornmeal).

Batter sticks just fine. Full of flavor.

For best fry, put wet shrimp in flour, dredge in egg wash, then put in flour/corn meal with pepper. Then fry. Extra crunchy

Balls

I also like the Louisiana fish fry product. I'll have to mix some of the shrimp fry with it.

The shrimp fry has more of a flour base than the fish fry - right?

Had a friend that mixed a little more black pepper in his Louisiana fish fry and I tried that. Was good, so I do that now.